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This is a pretty hard post to write, but I
want to be honest with you, my readers. I wanted to discuss all aspects of my
life, including my weight loss journey. I’d like to say I’m just starting on
this journey, but really I’ve been struggling with my weight for about 10 years
now. When I was in university I was the opposite of most people: I lost weight
at school and gained it over the summers; unfortunately, I always seemed to
gain a little more than the year before, so my gradually increased over the years.
Then, once I finished with school about 5 years ago I would lose 15-20 pounds
and then not try as hard to keep up with my eating and exercising and the
weight – plus some – would come back on. I don’t want to make excuses, because
there really is none, but add in there 2 years of illness requiring medication
with weight-gain side effects and bed rest, you wind up where I am: obese. I
think the technical term, according to the BMI charts is smack-dab-in-the-middle of "Obese Class II (Severely Obese)."Let me tell you, that doesn’t feel good.

I don’t want to just blame my bed rest, or
medication, for the weight gain because although it would contribute to it, it
is also possible to have either of those things without weight gain. It’s just
easier to blame something else than to blame ourselves. It’s easier to say
“this thing made me what I am” instead of admitting that I failed myself: I
made me what I am.

The important thing, is that I’m heading on
the right track. I’m making healthier choices, I’m watching what I eat. I’ve
joined Weight Watchers Online in an effort to track my eating without become
obsessed by calories. That, and the fact that I’m more likely to stick with
logging my foods because I’m paying for it. I already knew I tend to overeat on
the weekends, but thought I do pretty good during the week. In fact, I’ve
discovered I don’t enough during the week. By not eating enough, I was sending
my body into starvation mode so that when I did
overeat it grabbed on to everything! Not a good combination!

I haven’t started adding in exercise yet,
due to my capabilities (or perceived), and due to the weather; I’m going to
start walking to and from work, about 10-15 mins each way. Once it’s a bit
warmer I plan on doing a walk we call “the loop,” it’s 5km. I’m going to start
only doing part of the loop once a week, but hope to build up to doing the full
loop 5 days a week by the end of the summer. Next winter I’m going to use the
gym a few times a week, as well.Even
without the exercise, the simple changes I have made to my diet have allowed me
to lose 3 lbs in 3 weeks. I’m really pleased, and hope I can keep this up.I’m planning on doing an update once a month,
let me know what kind of information you want? Do you want to know my favorite
recipe of the month, new exercise I have learned?